Sophia Ross Week 2 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. The observations, measurements, and other types of data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explanations.
  2. 6. Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning.
  3. 7. The process of obtaining information by using the senses; the information obtained by using the senses.
  4. 8. In a scientific investigation, the factor that changes as a result of manipulation of one or more independent variables.
  5. 9. In science, a control is a system for which the expected change or outcome is well known and is measured of observed for the purpose of comparing it to a treatment group in scientific research. The control is used as a standard to compare or quanify change in the treatment. For more information, see Experimentation in Scientific Research.
Down
  1. 1. In a scientific investigation, the factor that is deliberately manipulated.
  2. 2. In mathamatics, a quantity that has a fixed value; something that does not vary.
  3. 3. A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigation.
  4. 4. An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions.
  5. 5. The knowledge obtained by observing natural events and conditions in order to discover facts and formulate laws or principles that can be verified or tested.